100 THE CHRISTIAN NATURALIST. 



those who have formerly frequented their temples on 

 these Tors, will " rise up in the judgment/' and con- 

 demn those who have deserted their churches in the 

 plains. 



It can scarcely he doubted that one design of the 

 great Author of Nature, in affording to man the pri- 

 vilege of ascending such heights as these, was to give 

 him a proportionate elevation and enlargement of soul. 

 Man has not wings to fly upwards as a bird, and if his 

 view were always bounded by level plains, he could 

 have had comparatively, but a very narrow glimpse of 

 the divine works ; and his ideas of them must have 

 been therefore much more mean and contracted than 

 they now are. One of the distinguished Poets of the 

 day has embodied this idea in a remarkable charac- 

 ter, whom he describes as 



' A Herdsman on the lonely mountain tops.' 



Taking occasion to shew how this occupation had en- 

 hanced his views of the word, as well as the works of 

 God, he has the following lines : — 



' O then how beautiful, how bright appear*d 

 The written promise : early had he learn'd 

 To reverence the volume that displays 

 The mystery, the life which cannot die : 



